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The Fibreglass Brush Scratchboarding

Fortunately companies manufacture these. Lastly you need something to scratch the colour off to create an image. This reveals the white clay and is a bit like drawing in reverse – rather than adding the darks, you add the lights.

The first scratchboard I ever saw was done by my own dad. I grew up in East Africa (hence so much wildlife in my art) and my dad did this scratchboard (being English it was known as ‘scraperboard’) of a leopard drinking at a waterhole. This was done

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